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Roberto De Zerbi<\/a> is hoping to raid his old club Brighton<\/a> to charge up Tottenham Hotspur<\/a>\u2019s rebuild, with Carlos Baleba, Jan Paul van Hecke and Bart Verbruggen at the top of his transfer targets. <\/p>\n

There is naturally an acceptance they may not get all of those, which is why Spurs are also looking at Bournemouth\u2019s Marcos Senesi, Liverpool\u2019s Andy Robertson<\/a> and Manchester City\u2019s James Trafford. <\/p>\n

Tottenham are even considering a deal for John Stones<\/a> in order to bring in some badly-needed leadership.<\/a><\/p>\n

\"JohnJohn Stones is another name on Spurs\u2019s target list (Getty)<\/p>\n

The club hierarchy are fully willing to back De Zerbi after negotiations that secured a \u201cHail Mary\u201d appointment back in April<\/a> to ultimately keep Tottenham in <\/a>the Premier League<\/a>. He naturally wants squad members that can quickly internalise his style, and sees the Brighton trio and \u201chis players\u201d.<\/p>\n

Baleba is likely to prove the trickiest, given that Brighton want over \u00a3100m, and there is competition from Manchester United.<\/a><\/p>\n

De Zerbi is also intent on a new goalkeeper despite Antonin Kinsky\u2019s recent heroics, with Verbruggen knowing exactly how he plays.<\/p>\n

\"RobertoRoberto De Zerbi knows Bart Vergbruggen well from his Brighton days (Getty)<\/p>\n

The club meanwhile want to bring in both Van Hecke and Senesi as centre-back options. The highly-rated teenager Luka Vuskovic is expected to sign a new deal and then go back on loan to Hamburg, were he hugely impressed this season on the club\u2019s return to the Bundesliga \u2013 finishing as the league\u2019s highest-scoring defender with six goals, recording the best duel success rate in the division (69.1 per cent) and being named in the Bundesliga Team of the Season.<\/p>\n

Micky van de Ven meanwhile wants to stay, to form a strong centre-half line-up key to De Zerbi\u2019s approach.<\/p>\n

\"JanJan Paul van Hecke and Bart Verbruggen are two of Roberto De Zerbi\u2019s transfer targets (Getty)<\/p>\n

Stones would come under stronger consideration if any of the main targets fall through but De Zerbi realises the need for that kind of leadership, which is also why Spurs have sustained interest in Robertson following his emotional departure from Liverpool<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The club have already found that new opportunities have opened up now they\u2019ve secured Premier League safety, which even extends to potential football leadership and executive roles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604927,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[33792,218,101,33794,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-604926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-bestof","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-topix","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604926"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604926\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}